WINE not working
I installed WINE from synaptic. I chose Wine, wine64, and q4wine. While
attempting to configure using q4wine I was unable to find the
wineserver daemon. I used the search in Files to search the entire
filesystem and got no results. I tried to install an app, the World of
Warcraft installer, and got a dialog box and progress bar that froze
1/3 of the way into installation.
I ran winecfg in a terminal and got the command not found error. I ran
wine in a terminal and got a message telling me I needed to run 3
commands as root: dpkg --add-architecture i386; apt-get update; and
finally apt-get install wine-bin:i386.
I did that. Wine64 was removed in that process. Wine-bin:i386,
libwine-gecko-1.4, and libwine-gecko-dbg-1.4 were installed. There is
still no wineserver daemon anywhere on my system. Winecfg brings up the
winecfg interface. Wine gives me the error message letting me know I
need to complete the command, such as wine appname.
Clicking on an app to install it brings up the dialog box for
installing the app but it doesn't; the progress bar never moves. I
suspect it may be because the World of Warcraft installer is 64 bit.
How do I get WINE to work correctly with 64 bit applications? I have
Wine 1.4.1-4 installed, and WineHQ says WoW runs perfectly on Wine
1.7.2. I hesitate to go outside the repositories and install 1.7.2 from
there.
cg
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